Improvement in shirt-sleeves



i UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT I SHIRTISLEEVES.v

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent'No. 98,521, dated January 4,1870.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALEXANDER RAMSAY, of Philadelphia, of the State of Pennsylvania, but at present residing at Boston, of the State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to the Sleeves of Shirts or various other Garments; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying draw-- ings. w

rPhe principle of my invention, or that on which it is based and on which it may be termed an improvement, consists in the combination and arrangement of an auxiliary cuff with a-,main cuff and its sleeve, in manner so that while both cuffs are attached or sewed to the sleeve the auxiliary one may be turned back on the sleeve and when the main cuff may become soiled by wear such auxiliary cuff may be turned down, so as to lap on and cover the main cuff.

Of tlie drawings above Inentioned, Figure l denotes a view of the `sleeve -and the main and auxiliary cuffs as open, the auxiliary cuff being represented as turned back on the sleeve. Fig. 2 is a similar view, but with the auxiliary cuff as turned down, so as to lap on and extend beyond the main cuff. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the sleeve and its two cuffs.

or, which is the same or better, the cuff C` may be connected with the sleeve by a strip,

b, of cloth, arranged with the cuff B, sleeve' A, and a portion or lap, c, of the auxiliary cuff, in manner as represented. In the main cuff B, I form two stud-button holes, d d', and one common button-hole, e, the latter being to button upon a button, f, placed at the opposite part of the cuff. In the auxiliary cuff C, two stud -button holes, g g, are to be arranged, as shown, there being but one button,

h, xed to such cuff. When the auxiliary cuff is turned back upon the sleeve, the studbutton is to be put into the holes d d', and the buttonhole e is to be buttoned on the button the part b, in manner as shown in Fig. 4, in

which case the buttons f will be brought un der or so close to the button h as to admit of the button-hole c being buttoned on the button h.

The advantages of the extension-piece `b and the covering iiy or part c will be easily seen, the former admitting of the auxiliary cud being placed in either of two positions Whenlapped on the Imain cuff. The y c Serves to impart a finish to the cuff` O, and to give to it, when down, the appearance of a turned-over" cuff.

With my invention, when the main cuffl may become soiled by use, the other cuff may be turned down over it, so as to cover it and present to view a clean cuff.

I am aware that reversible cuffs, detached from or not sewed to the shirt-sleeves, have been long known and in use. Consequently I make no claim thereto as my invention. My cuffs are so sewed to or connected with the shirt-sleeve as not to be detachable therefrom under ordinary circumstances.

My invention may be applied to the Inaking of collars as well as sleeves for shirts.

' I make no claim to any invention or thing described in the specification of the British Patent No. 929 for the year 1866; but

What I claim as my invention or improvement is as follows, viz:

l. The combination and arrangement of the extension -piece b and the iiy c with the two cuffs B C, applied to or to be applied to a sleeve, as set forth.

2. The combination and arrangement of the auxiliary button h with the main and auxiliary cuffs B C, and the button f, and button-holes de of the main cuff.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER EAMSAY.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

